Using cardboard, popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and strings create a pine cone that opens and closes. This site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.

Build a zoetrope machine where you can animate a facial expression and the machine plays the animation back with this site. Site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place to document your design process.

Using common household materials students are challenged to make a flying raptor and control its flight with attached strings. Site includes lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their process.

This is a USS Constitution Museum resource that has students compare the area of the size of the sails of the USS Constitution as it compares to their classroom.

Tell the class that they will be making collages of USS Constitution. Reproduce the sails and hull pages to hand out along with scissors, rulers, paste and pieces of paper 11" x 17" on which students may assemble their collages.

This USS Constitution Museum resources allows students to become ship builder and create their own version of the USS Constitution.

This USS Constitution Museum resource is a lesson plan that calls for students to work together in teams to create a new figurehead for the USS Constitution that was destroyed while on patrol.

An extensive general discussion of all the changes that have occurred within the culture of women in the workplace and the home and the increasing number of women academics and users of the internet.

The National Academy of Engineering promotes engineering as a career, especially to women and girls. Answer questions you have about becoming an engineer and about being an engineer.

Learn fun facts about engineering, women engineers, and engineering achievements.

Dedicated to educating the world about engineering, and promoting engineering concepts and projects, Engineering UK inspires people at all levels to pursue careers in engineering.

This site from PBS Kids "Zoom" provides great ideas for building a Rube Goldberg machine around the house from common items. The information is complete with materials needed, instructions, and results on a level for elementary kids.